Brett Beier | Special to the Kalamazoo GazettePolitically outspoken rocker Ted Nugent told high school students in Metro Detroit to stay away from drugs and 'watch Glenn Beck' in a recent motivational assembly.Motor City Madman Ted Nugent dropped into a Royal Oak high school recently to talk to his granddaughter's peers about staying away from drugs and what it takes to be a rock star.

But somewhere between doling out grandfatherly advice and playing acoustic versions of "Johnny B. Good" and "Cat Scratch Fever," talk turned to Nugent's other passion -- politics.

According to the Oakland Press, a Shrine Catholic Academy and High School student asked for Nugent's views on global warming.

The 61-year-old Nugent, whose grandaughter is a student at the school, also told the high schoolers to stay in school ("Without the basics, you got nothin’. You’re a bum," he said) and to stay away from drugs and alcohol.

“I’m proud to say my music is more intense, my love of music is more
intense than ever, my love of life is more intense than ever, which
inspires more music that is more intense than ever, because I’ve been
61 years clean and sober,” Nugent said.

“No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco, no poison. No silly, funny joke called peer pressure. I’m an individual.”

The Oakland Press has a video of the school concert. You can watch it here.